Rich and strange

An archive of transgressive cinema

Electric Sheep is currently on hiatus while the members of our managing team are working on their own projects, but it remains as an archive of writing on transgressive cinema. Over the past 10 years we have had the pleasure to feature contributions by many talented writers and interviews with some of our favourite directors and to write about the most exciting films. We thank our amazing contributors and our loyal readers for their support and we encourage everyone to continue digging into the rich treasure trove we have assembled since 2007.

Murderous tenderness, destructive desires, awkward love: Check out our theme focus on films that take a twisted approach to romance, from Jacques Deray's La piscine, a classic French noir-ish tale of desire, jealousy and male rivalry among the glamorous St Tropez jet set, to Pablo Larraín's minimalist Post Mortem, in which a lonely mortician falls for a troubled dancer as Pinochet brutally takes power in 70s Chile.

This latest episode looks at films set in uncanny locations. Alex Fitch talks to director Bart Simpson about his documentary film Brasília: Life After Design, and his producing role on Moebius Redux and The Corporation. Graphic novelist turned director Anders Winter explores his adaptation of cult American comic book I Kill Giants, and the cast and crew of Caught discuss their 2017 SF thriller, which mixes a classic British cottage under siege film with a John Wyndham style alien invasion. The Electric Sheep Film Show is broadcast on the third Wednesday every two month, 5.30-6.30pm at Resonance FM 104.4.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Witchfinder General (1968), Electric Sheep founder Virginie Sélavy explores the sorcery theme that runs through director Michael Reeves’s work in relation to key countercultural ideas and place it in the context of other witch films of the period. It will show that under the cool, liberated, thrill-seeking, free-love, anti-authoritarian surface of the 1960s Reeves sees the dark side of the cultural revolution and reveals mankind’s eternal propensity for violence.